The Biblical Worldview

The worldview that the Bible and the history of the people of God demonstrate in their beliefs and actions is usually summed up in this phrase: the conservative evangelical perspective. That perspective is the one to which this web site holds.

This Biblical worldview has been expressed through near-universally recognised and supported statements of the church that are given the name "Creed" - from the Latin "credo" meaning "I believe". The two creeds that cover the central and fundamental expressions of the Christian faith in its Biblical worldview are known as the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed.

These two creeds are available to read by following this link to The Historic Creeds of the Christian Faith.

From a conservative evangelical perspective, the Bible presents a unified, God-centered worldview in which the Triune God sovereignly creates, sustains, and governs all things. Humanity, created by the direct action of the Triune God, is made in God's image. Yet the Bible tells us, and history portrays for us, that humanity, all humanity, has fallen into sin. This fall began in the Garden of Eden, when the first human couple that God created, Adam and Eve, rejected God's clear instructions and went their own way, and the Devil's way, and in doing so not only rebelled against God and sided with God's enemy, the Devil, but also had to face the consquences of their choices and actions as these rippled through the whole of human personality and through the whole of the created universe, as the consequences of sin, which in essence is simply the choice to reject God's ways and truth, and cling to the Devil's - and the sinful Self's - ways and "truth", except the Devil's "truth” turns out to be a total lie.

This is not the end of the story however, for God in his love and grace does not leave us trapped in our sin, and travelling down the path dictated by our rebellion against him, but of his own freewill and love, and by his own sovereign control of the universe and by the self-determined exercise of his own power, sets into play his eternal plan of redemption and salvation.

This plan of redemption and salvation is accomplished uniquely through the life, death, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. amd is ultimately grounded in the full authority and inerrancy of Scripture, which as it is the message of God to humanity, is the medium through which God has primarily chosen to communicate his will, his truth, his love to humanity, and to communicate the responsible that he expects from humanity, a response that must be consistent with his nature, and in consequence of that, is the only response that is for the good, the well-being, the blessing of humanity, not just in time and space, but throughout eternity.

This worldview offers a comprehensive and rational explanation of reality, meaning, morality, and human destiny. These points have been developed theologically, philosophically, ethically and pastorally on the one hand, and socially, culturally and politically on the other.